Real Estate Safety SWMS

Product Overview

This SWMS covers property visits, travel, access, inspections, tours, open homes, auctions, close-down and sign-off. It supports planning work and managing risks associated with travel, property conditions, occupants, visitors, security and personal safety.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

• Plan daily property visits, including remote work and travel demands
• Travel to and arrive at properties safely
• Approach owners and manage unexpected contact at properties
• Secure property access and manage keys
• Inspect external property areas, accessways, stairs, decks and pools
• Enter and inspect occupied properties
• Inspect cluttered or abandoned properties
• Conduct property tours with clients
• Set up and manage open homes
• Conduct auctions and negotiations
• Close, clean, secure and sign off properties

Who is this for?

Suitable for contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out real estate property activities.

Specific Job Steps & Hazards Covered

Legislation & References

The template includes references relevant to the documented work, including:

• Applicable Commonwealth, state or territory WHS/OHS legislation and regulations: apply the relevant primary duty of care, consultation, risk-management, information, training, instruction, supervision, workplace-entry, emergency and psychosocial-risk duties to agency activities.
• Model Code of Practice: How to Manage Work Health and Safety Risks — guidance for identifying hazards, applying the hierarchy of controls, consulting workers and reviewing controls.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work — guidance on remote or isolated work, violence and aggression, conflict, workload, support and review of controls. The guidance identifies communication systems, buddy systems, movement records and training as relevant isolated-work controls.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing the Work Environment and Facilities — guidance for safe access, amenities, first aid, emergency arrangements and remote or isolated work.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing the Risks of Falls at Workplaces — guidance where access to elevated areas, stairs, balconies, decks or damaged flooring creates a fall risk.
• Model Code of Practice: Hazardous Manual Tasks — guidance for moving signs, barriers, furniture, marketing displays and inspection equipment.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing the Risks of Plant in the Workplace — guidance for safe vehicle and portable-equipment use. Real-estate agents acting in that capacity are not generally suppliers of a property merely through the agency role.
• AS/NZS 4602.1 High visibility safety garments; AS/NZS 2210.3 safety footwear; AS/NZS 1337.1 personal eye protection; AS/NZS 1716 respiratory protective devices; AS/NZS 1715 selection, use and maintenance of respiratory protective equipment; AS 3745 planning for emergencies in facilities.
• Model WHS laws and model Codes are guidance only and do not automatically have legal effect in every jurisdiction; confirm locally applicable duties, approved codes, property-services requirements and road-authority requirements before use.

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Standard SWMS Features (Click to Expand)

• Task-specific job steps, hazards and control measures
• Initial and residual risk ratings
• Assigned responsible persons for each job step
• Plant, equipment and PPE requirements where applicable
• Permits, qualifications and high-risk construction work details where applicable
• Worker consultation, sign-off and review sections